Rocks and Minerals – Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

How to Use the Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.


Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Rock & Minerals - Common Core Lessons and Activities
What Are Minerals?: Reading Information Text
Properties of Reading Informational Text
Common Reading Informational Text
Crystal Primary Source Analysis
Testing Mineral Applying Concepts G
Useful Main Idea Organizer G
What Are Rocks?: Main Idea G
Rock Point of View
Three Types of Reading Informational Text
Three Types of Graphic Organizer GO2
Name that Rock!: Applying Concepts G
Let’s Dig Igneous Compare & Contrast
Let’s Dig Sedimentary Graphical Analysis
Let’s Dig Metamorphic Reading Informational Text
Rock Graphic Organizer G
Let’s Explore a Reading Informational Text
Spelunker Writing
Stalactites & Comparison of Primary Sources
Rock & Mineral Vocabulary GO10
Valuable Rocks―Gems!: Reading Informational Text
Mining for Primary Source Analysis
Common Core Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizer
Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, ebook

First published April 30, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.